{"id":204575,"date":"2025-08-13T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-pride-and-survival-on-the-line-as-sudan-and-nigeria-collide-in-chan-group-d\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:04:07","slug":"africa-pride-and-survival-on-the-line-as-sudan-and-nigeria-collide-in-chan-group-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-pride-and-survival-on-the-line-as-sudan-and-nigeria-collide-in-chan-group-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Pride and Survival On the Line As Sudan and Nigeria Collide in CHAN Group D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>When Sudan and Nigeria step onto the turf at Zanzibar&#8217;s Amaan Stadium on Tuesday, it won&#8217;t just be about three points.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">For Sudan, it&#8217;s a chance to build momentum in a campaign fuelled by belief and resilience. For Nigeria, it&#8217;s pure survival &#8212; a &#8220;do-or-die&#8221; scrap to keep their African Nations Championship hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Two different journeys now converge under the same pressure: win or risk the door to the quarterfinals slamming shut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Appiah&#8217;s Redemption Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Kwesi Appiah, Sudan&#8217;s experienced&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508120041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Sudan and Nigeria step onto the turf at Zanzibar&#8217;s Amaan Stadium on Tuesday, it won&#8217;t just be about three points. For Sudan, it&#8217;s a chance to build momentum in a campaign fuelled by belief and resilience. For Nigeria, it&#8217;s pure survival &#8212; a &#8220;do-or-die&#8221; scrap to keep their African Nations Championship hopes alive. Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":204576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,11500,35229,5192,6402,257,4687,15797,254,4708,1613,15938],"class_list":["post-204575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chan","tag-collide","tag-group","tag-line","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-pride","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-survival"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}